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Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic.

List of animal sounds

Picture	Animal	Description	Sound
	Alligator	bellow, hiss
	Alpaca	alarm call, cluck/click, hum, orgle, scream
	Antelope	snort
	Badger	growl
	Bat	screech, squeak, eek
	Bear	roar, growl
	Bee	buzz
	Big cat (Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, Leopard)	roar, growl, snarl
	Camel	grunt
	Capybara	squeak, chatter, bark
	Cat	mew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, caterwaul, growl
	Cattle	moo, low
	Chicken	cluck, buck, crow cha-caw, bah-gawk (female) cock-a-doodle-doo (male)
	Chinchilla	squeak
	Cicada	chirp
	Crab	chirp, click, creak
	Crane	clang
	Cricket	chirp
	Crow	caw, cah
	Curlew	pipe
	Deer	bellow, bell (buck), bleat (doe, fawn)
	Dog	arf, bark, boof, bay, howl, growl, snarl, moan, whine, whimper, yelp, scream, sigh, sneeze, woof, yip
	Dolphin	click, whistle
	Donkey	hee-haw, bray
	Duck	quack
	Eagle	screech
	Elephant	trumpet
	Elk	bugle (male), bleat (calves)
	Ferret	dook
	Fly	buzz
	Fox	bark, scream, howl, snore, gecker
	Fish	glub
	Frog	croak, ribbit
	Gaur	low, moo
	Giraffe	bleat, hum
	Goat	bleat, maa
	Goose	honk, hiss
	Grasshopper	chirp
	Guinea pig	wheek
	Hamster	squeak
	Hawk	screech
	Hermit crab	chirp
	Hippopotamus	growl
	Hornet	buzz
	Horse	neigh, whinny, nicker, hoofbeats (clip-clop)
	Hyena	laugh
	Jackal	gecker
	Koala	bellow, shriek
	Kangaroo	jump
	Laughing kookaburra	laugh
	Lemur	chatter, whoop
	Leopard	roar, growl, snarl
	Linnet	chuckle
	Lion	roar, growl, snarl
	Locust	chirp
	Magpie	chatter
	Monkey	scream, chatter, gecker, howl
	Moose	bellow
	Mosquito	buzz, whine
	Mouse	squeak
	Okapi	cough, bellow
	Owl	hoot, hiss, caterwaul for barred owls, twit twoo for tawny owls
	Ox	low, moo
	Parrot	squawk, talk
	Peacock	scream, squawk, honk
	Penguin	chirp, honk, trumpet, bray
	Pig	oink, snort, squeal, grunt
	Pigeon	coo
	Prairie dog	bark
	Quail	call
	Rabbit	squeak
	Raccoon	trill
	Rat	squeak
	Raven	caw, cronk
	River otter	blow, chatter, chirp, creek, grunt, hiccup, hiss, scream, squeak, swish, whine, whistle, chatterchirp, purr
	Rook	caw
	Seal	bark
	Sheep	bleat, baa, maa, meh (lambs)
	Snake	hiss, rattle
	Songbird	chirrup, chirp, tweet, sing, warble (larks / warblers / wrens), twitter (sparrows)
	Squirrel	squeak
	Swan	cry, trumpet, bugle
	Tapir	squeak
	Tokay gecko	croak
	Turkey	gobble
	Whale	sing
	Wild boar	growl, grumble
	Wildebeest	low, moo
	Wolf	howl, growl, bay
	Zebra	bray, bark, whistle, yip, nicker

See also

• Animal communication
• Animal epithet
• Animal language
• Bioacoustics
• Cat organ & piganino
• Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
• Field recording
• List of animal names
• List of onomatopoeias
• "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
• "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"

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External links

• List of animal sounds to download, listen and use for free.
• Multilingual list of animal sounds Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide

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